2018 San Francisco CISO Executive Leadership Summit

March 16, 2018, 7 AM-5 PM

Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Event Highlights

Digital disruption is ushering a new wave of business model innovations. Because digital transformation is a journey, the CISO and other members of the C-suite must recognize that new technologies and emerging innovations represent continual change. As technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and hyper-convergence offer new ways for doing business, the CISO is uniquely positioned to deliver bold, game-changing leadership, engender transformational innovation, and steer the enterprise into the next era of digital business.

The leadership traits and skills required by technology leaders to help champion customer-centric efforts will be the focal point of the 2018 San Francisco CISO Executive Leadership Summit.

Michael Armer leads the Global Information Security organization for Lam Research Corporation. Lam develops innovative solutions that help customers build smaller, faster, more powerful, and more power-efficient electronic devices. Lam revenues are $10B, employing over 10K employees across North America, Europe and Asia.

As the information security executive for Lam, Michael is responsible for the protection of Lam’s information assets, disaster recovery program, corporate cyber risk posture and cost of protection. Michael oversees the development and execution of Lam’s cyber governance, security architecture, monitoring and incident response programs.

In this role, Michael has led the company through ISO 27001 certification, invented a patent pending customer collaboration SaaS platform, delivered international IP flow control capability, and institutionalized key risk management process in the areas of supplier and cloud vendor qualification.

Personally, Michael and his wife have three daughters. In addition to being a dad, Michael’s personal interests include house boating, wake surfing and he is currently pursuing a private pilot’s license.

Michael has an B.S. in Information Technology and MBA from University of Southern California. He is a CISSP, MCSE and Certified ISO 27001 Auditor.

Todd Barnum is the Chief Information Security Officer for GoPro in San Mateo California. In this role, he leads the information security team, and helps GoPro secure its critical information assets.

Prior to GoPro, Todd spent time at two consulting firms, KPMG LLP, and Forrester Research. In both positions Todd led Information Security Consulting Practices.

Prior to these consultant gigs, Todd was the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Warner Bros Entertainment in Burbank California. At the same time Todd also had the pleasure of serving Warner Bros as the Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, and was responsible for architecting and securing the transition from and entirely insourced IT model to one that was entirely outsourced and off-shored.

Prior to Warner Bros, Todd spent 8 years at AMGEN, headquartered in Los Angeles where he served as Corporate Director and Chief Information Security Officer.

Early in his career, Todd learned the details of information security as a Naval Officer managing some of the Navy’s largest telecommunication systems. Todd got his Masters in Telecommunications from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, and his Bachelors from the University of Hawaii.

Todd is also an Adjunct Professor at California Luther University where he’s taught computer science courses since 2001. Todd also served as a Board member of the Ventura County YMCA, and was a part Orange County’s Big Brother Big Sister Program.

As the Chief Security Officer, Steven Booth is in charge of leading all aspects of IT security at FireEye. This includes the ongoing development and execution of enterprise-wide security architecture and monitoring programs, as well as technology risk and compliance. Steven directs the implementation of security controls, standards, policies and procedures to ensure continuous monitoring and protection of information systems and physical property while ensuring that compliance is maintained against both corporate security policies and industry standards.

Prior to joining FireEye, Steven was the AVP of Information Security and CISO at Manulife/John Hancock in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had global responsibility for all IT security in the US, Canada, and 11 countries in Asia. He previously held the role of Cybersecurity Architect at Microsoft, and ran security operations for VeriSign’s MSSP. Steven has a B.S. in Business Management from CSUH, and a Master’s degree in Digital Security from Golden Gate University.

Husam is Principal within PwC’s Cybersecurity and Privacy practice. Husam oversees the delivery of Strategy and Transformation strategies to global software and cloud companies in the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. He also specializes in:

Husam also leads PwC’s research and development around Cyber Value at Risk (CyberVaR) models which are designed to measure the economic and business impacts of cyber loss scenarios and return on security investments.

He has also served as an interim executive for the security risk and compliance function for a major cloud software provider and has also previously sat on the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council’s (FSSCC) Cybersecurity committee, working closely with representatives from the public and private sector on national policy issues impacting critical infrastructure.

Michael is CEO and co-founder of Awake Security and helped to incubate the company within Greylock Partners, where he served as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Previously, Michael was chief technologist for HP StorageWorks Enterprise NAS, joining the company through the acquisition of PolyServe, a big data infrastructure company that he founded and served as CTO. Earlier in his career, Michael was a mathematician working on differential geometry and symplectic topology. He was a Rhodes Scholar and junior research fellow in mathematics at Oxford University and holds a BA in social studies from Harvard University.

Jasson Casey serves as chief technology officer and leads the company’s engineering efforts. Casey is an 18- year veteran of the telecom and computer networking industry. Most recently he managed the engineering team for IronNet CyberSecurity, a security startup founded by Gen. (ret) Keith Alexander. He has held executive leadership positions in engineering and product management in startups as well as S&P 500 companies. Casey is an industry- recognized expert in Software-Defined Networking and helped define key technologies in carrier VoIP security and Wireless mobility. He is also a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a member of the Software Leadership Council, and a research associate with the Open Networking Foundation. Casey holds a BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin and is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Texas A&M University.

Asheem Chandna is a Partner at Greylock Partners, where he is focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build the next generation of enterprise companies. His current companies include Aquantia, Avi Networks, Awake Security, Delphix, Innovium, Obsidian Security, Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Rubrik and Skyhigh Networks.

Matt Comyns is managing partner of the firm’s Cyber Security Practice and a member of the Stamford office. His focus is on recruiting chief information security officers and next-level-down top lieutenants in information security for large global corporations and fast-growing private companies, as well as cyber security consultants for leading professional services firms and top executives for cyber security technology companies.

Matt previously co-led Russell Reynolds Associates’ Global Cyber Security Practice, within the firm’s Technology Sector. Prior to joining the executive search industry, he served as CEO of Pacific Epoch, a consulting firm that specializes in market intelligence and research for U.S.-based companies seeking to invest in and expand into China—until the completion of the firm’s sale. Prior to that, he was a founding partner of BlackInc Ventures, a strategic advisory firm providing clients in the digital media sector with leading outsourced solutions for business, sales, and corporate development.

Before launching BlackInc Ventures in 2004, Matt worked with CNET Networks Inc. for nearly seven years, holding various positions including senior vice president/publisher of News.com, vice president of business development, and director of business development at Snap.com. He has also served as a sales manager for Dow Jones Interactive in Asia and as a founding board member of The Online Publishers’ Association.

Matt holds a BA in political science from Bucknell University and is conversational in Mandarin. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for Music National Service, a national nonprofit organization and movement that supports music as a strategy for public good.

Mike is a Partner and has more than twenty years of experience in Information Technology Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, Privacy, IT Governance Risk and Compliance, emerging trends and innovation including cloud. Mike is responsible for PwC’s US Internal Technology Audit Services practice for non-Financial Service companies and is our Cloud Assurance Leader in the US. Mike is also responsible for PwC's West Region Cybersecurity and Privacy Assurance practice.

Mike has provided governance, management, organization design & effectiveness and strategy & planning services to a wide array of industries and firms. He has a reputation for helping clients anticipate future risks and building productive relationships. Mike’s primary area of focus today is the strategic program development for internal technology audit, cybersecurity, privacy and IT Risk. This experience gives him a unique perspective in discussing relevant board considerations, including mitigating related cybersecurity risks. He’s worked and presented to numerous board and audit committee members on the topic of IT risk and cybersecurity.

Mike has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Indiana University. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor, member of AICPA and a member of the Information Systems and Control Association

Jamey Cummings is a Senior Client Partner in Korn Ferry’s Global Technology Practice. He co-lead’s the Firm’s Global Cybersecurity Practice and is also a member of the Firm’s Information Officers Practice.

Mr. Cummings is a recognized leader in advising organizations on the recruitment, assessment, development, and retention of information technology as well as information security & risk management talent at all levels, including the Board of Directors. His clients range from large global corporations to high growth entrepreneurial companies, spanning all industries. In addition to Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, and their key leaders, he also recruits cybersecurity consultants for leading professional services firms as well as top executives for cybersecurity technology companies and managed security services providers. He is based in the Firm’s Dallas office.

Prior to Korn Ferry, Mr. Cummings served as an associate principal in the industrial, supply chain, and transportation & logistics practices of another leading executive search firm, where he executed senior executive search assignments for both public and private equity-backed companies. He also served clients in the consumer & retail, technology, government & defense, biotechnology, and education sectors.

Prior to his career in executive search, Mr. Cummings was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Dallas, where he worked on a wide variety of projects with clients in the aerospace & defense, consumer finance, telecommunications, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and education industries.
Earlier in his career, he served nine years with distinction as an officer in the U.S. Navy's SEAL teams.

He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University, and graduated with merit with a bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from The United States Naval Academy.

Anil Earla was formerly the Head of Information and Data Analytics for Global IS at Visa Inc., where he lead diverse teams of business and technology. As an intrapreneur, he is passionate about bringing Silicon Valley innovation mindset to larger organizations. His dual roles span innovation and strategic partnerships, shaping vision/strategy and technology alignment, various technology verticals across product life cycle for cyber security such as product management and business/system analysis, Big Data and visualization engineering, advanced analytics (data science), business intelligence and data warehousing, infrastructure and solution architecture, infrastructure and operations, program/portfolio management, and governance. Before joining Visa, he was part of industry leading organizations in the financial services, telecommunications, insurance, gaming, and airline industries. His stint across different industries and technology functions provides him the unique opportunity to apply and leverage the power of data and analytics. Under his leadership, his team was Data Impact awards finalist at Strata + Hadoop World 2014 for innovation in data ecosystem. Earla is part of the entrepreneurship and innovation program from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He completed Program in strategy from Harvard Graduate School of Business. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from JSU and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University.

Mark Egan is a partner at StrataFusion Group, Inc. and has more than 25 years of information technology experience, with expertise in IT transformation, information security, and mergers & acquisitions. His extensive experience includes managing global IT organizations with over 1,200 employees, budgets in excess of $350 million, and IT integration for over 60 mergers and acquisitions. Mark has been repeatedly recognized for his leadership and success in scaling IT organizations to support rapid growth companies.

Prior to joining StrataFusion, Mark was a CIO at VMware where he led the company from a server virtualization vendor with $2 billion in revenue to a $5 billion market leader of cloud solutions. During his 6 years as CIO at Symantec, Mark’s leadership in IT was instrumental in supporting the company’s transformation from $600 million consumer software publisher to a $5 billion market leader of enterprise security solutions. He held senior level positions with companies in a variety of industries, including Sun Microsystems, Price Waterhouse, and Wells Fargo Bank.

Mark holds a master’s degree in finance and international business from University of San Diego and a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from University of Clarion. Mark developed and taught a graduate class, “Building Business Value through IT Innovation”, at the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley.

Chris Jacquet is Hitachi Data Systems’ vice president, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) since February 2016. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining a corporate-wide information security program to protect HDS’ information assets. He is identifying, evaluating and reporting on information security risks to meet compliance and regulatory requirements. Chris also leads enterprise security programs including security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, identity management, network security, disaster recovery and risk policies. An accomplished executive with outstanding security, risk management and compliance expertise, Chris has a proven track record of providing strategic direction and high-touch seamless global support with agility—skills that helps to adjust to rapidly-changing business dynamics. Previously, Chris was Sr. director of Cloud Security and Compliance Architecture at Marketo Inc., a key vendor of Digital Marketing cloud application. He built and led cross-functional teams to secure Marketo’s software products. Chris’ prior roles include senior director Global IT Security, Compliance, Risk Management and Governance at Symantec, and a 26 years career at Hewlett-Packard where he held several roles associated to security, compliance and risk management in HP’s outsourcing services business unit. Chris has a marketing certificate from UC Berkeley and an engineering degree in computer science from Institut National des Sciences Appliqués (Lyon, France).

Prior to founding Cybric, Mike Kail was Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and Data Center functions for the company. He has more than 24 years of IT Operations experience with a focus on highly-scalable architectures.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Mike served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix, where he was responsible for Employee Technology and various Engineering components. Before that role, Mike was VP of IT Operations at Attensity, where he was responsible for the Americas data center operations team; including managing various Big Data systems with their Hadoop cluster, HBase and MongoDB components.

He has been widely recognized for his insightful industry commentary on social media, and was recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter.”

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Mike is based in Los Gatos, CA, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Mukul is CISO and VP of Cyber practice at Balbix. Prior to joining Balbix, he was the CISO of Altera, a semiconductor firm recently acquired by Intel. During his 8 years with Altera, he transformed their security program and enterprise security architecture into one that larger organizations envy and strive to duplicate. Earlier in his career he served in various roles at McKinsey and Microsoft. Mukul now directs the Balbix Services Team, and helps Balbix customers to considerably reduce their cyber risk.

Hunter Muller is a transformative CEO at HMG Strategy, LLC, the strongest executive leadership network. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in consulting with IT executive leaders, Hunter is a multi-title book author and a frequent industry speaker on transformational leadership and innovation. His concepts are used worldwide to improve executive performance, enhance collaboration, elevate the role of IT, and align strategy across the enterprise.

Through years of research and experience, Hunter has published four books: “The Transformational CIO” (John Wiley & Sons, 2011), “On Top of The Cloud” (John Wiley & Sons, 2012), “Leading the Epic Revolution” (John Wiley & Sons, 2013), and “The Big Shift in IT Leadership” (John Wiley & Sons, 2015).

HMG Strategy assists C-level executives in becoming transformational leaders. HMG Strategy hosts networking summits and provides services that are focused around innovative IT leadership, management, and technology support to CIOs and senior IT executives. HMG Strategy is "The Strongest Executive Leadership Network" with an international association of more than 300,000 global CIOs/senior IT executives, industry experts, and world-class thought leaders.

Hunter and HMG Strategy support a variety of IT-related charities, and Hunter is a member of the Executive Committee of the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter of the Society for Information Management.

Michael brings over 20 years of combined IT/Tech practitioner and Executive Search experience specific to CISO/VP Security, CIO/CTO, and DevOps engagements. Michael has led a focused subset of recent Security leadership engagements across a variety of company sizes and industries including Veritas/Symantec, EY, Virgin America, Duo Security, MuleSoft, and One Medical Group. Most recently Michael was the CEO for Mitchellake in the US and a Technology Partner at Calibre One. He also spent 10 years as the Founder and Managing Technology Partner for CVPartners. Prior to his executive search career Michael was in the managed cloud operations space as a Co-Founder of OpSource and an early executive member at SiteSmith/AboveNet. Michael began his career with MTI, one of the pioneers in the managed storage space. A native of Maryland, Michael holds a B.S. Degree from the University of Delaware. Michael lives in the SF Bay Area.

Matthew Rosenquist joined Intel Corp in 1996 and benefits from 28 diverse years in the fields of cyber, physical, and information security. Mr. Rosenquist specializes in security strategy, measuring value, developing best-practices for cost effective capabilities, and establishing organizations which deliver optimal levels of cybersecurity. As a cybersecurity strategist for the Intel, he identifies risks and opportunities to build organizations that balance risks, costs, and usability factors across hardware, firmware, software, artificial intelligence, and services. Mr. Rosenquist is active in the industry and consults on best-practices and emerging risks to academic, business, and government audiences around the globe. Mr. Rosenquist built and managed Intel’s first global 24x7 Security Operations Center, oversaw several internal platform security products and services, deployed the enterprise intrusion detection program, and was Intel’s first Incident Commander for worldwide IT emergency responses. He has conducted investigations and risk assessments in defense of corporate assets and managed the security playbook for Intel security features landing in the PC architecture. Mr. Rosenquist ran security for Intel’s multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions activities and quantitatively justified the improvement strategy protecting Intel’s global manufacturing capability. His development of the Threat Agent Risk Assessment (TARA) methodology to optimize security, has influenced how organizations view and prioritize risks. Currently, he is leading cybersecurity for Intel’s Artificial Intelligence group, with a focus on how AI will transform security, privacy, and safety. Mr. Rosenquist is very active in the industry, speaks at conferences, consults with industry partners, member of multiple advisory boards, and has published acclaimed white papers, blogs, and videos on a wide range of cybersecurity topics. In 2018, he was named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices for technology. He is very passionate about cybersecurity and strives to blend practical risk mitigation practices, business processes, and technology capabilities to achieve an optimal level of security.

Kathryn Ullrich is a Partner in Odgers Berndtson’s Silicon Valley office and a member of the Technology Practice and leads the Diversity Practice. She focuses on senior executive searches for major corporations and venture-capital-backed companies in software, systems and services, and has specific expertise in AI, autonomous vehicle technology, cloud, cyber security, data analytics, Internet, IoT, and SaaS.

Prior to joining Odgers Berndtson, Kathryn spent twenty years building her executive search practice at several firms including Heidrick & Struggles, Russell Reynolds Associates and her own Silicon Valley boutique search firm. Earlier in her career, Kathryn worked in software product marketing at Siebel Systems (now Oracle), strategy consulting at Accenture, and engineering at GTE (now Verizon) and Motorola. She is the founder of a Silicon Valley non-profit for women in technology and actively works with clients on increasing diversity in technology.

Kathryn has a B.S. cum laude in electrical engineering from University of Michigan and an MBA with top honors from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

As the number and complexity of cyber-attacks escalated in 2017, it’s become abundantly clear that historical approaches to cyber security are no longer sufficient. Today’s CISO must be prepared to embrace innovation and to drive secure value to their organization while forging tight collaboration with the C-suite and the board. This panel of information security executives will discuss their roles in leading transformative cyber security strategies along with best practices for working with fellow executives to proactively protect the enterprise.

Jasson will share insights on the status of third-party risks today, presenting unique statistics and industry comparisons. He will also provide an overview of the key elements of an effective ecosystem risk management approach, as well as the benefits of intelligent IP attribution in risk management.

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM

Coffee Break, Networking and Meet Our Partners

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM

EXECUTIVE PANEL: New Technologies - Trends and Opportunities for Protecting the Organization

Jason Rader, National Director of Security Solutions, Datalink, A division of Insight

Moderator: Tim Mather, Chief Security Strategist, PatternEx

We are in the early innings of an extended innovation cycle that will affect and impact the enterprise for decades to come. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence/machine learning and user-behavior analytics offer information security teams new ways to detect malicious behavior faster and more effectively. This session will showcase new security technologies that are reshaping information security practices.

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM

Transition Break

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

EXECUTIVE PANEL: Creating Your Future Professional Brand as an IT Security Leader

Matt Comyns, Managing Partner, Caldwell Partners

Jamey Cummings, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry

Michael Piacente, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hitch Partners

Kathryn Ullrich, Partner, Odgers Berndtson

Moderator: Hunter Muller, President and CEO, HMG Strategy

The role of the CISO has been pushed into the spotlight. Still, not all CISOs have won a seat at the table in the C-suite. Top security and search executives will share examples of partnering across the business to become a valued member of the team along with best practices for CISOs to elevate their professional brands and accelerate their career paths.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Luncheon

COMMUNITY GIVE-BACK PROGRAM

Mark Egan, Partner, StrataFusion

HMG has a long history of giving back to the community and developing future leaders. We are proud to be a sponsor of the CISE Security Program at Merritt College (https://cisesecurity.com/) that was designed by security industry thought leaders to develop the next generation of security professionals. Merritt college serves the Oakland school district that includes students from less advantaged backgrounds. CISE Security Program offers progressive companies the opportunity to improve their security program and give back to the community. We will be discussing the program in more detail during this session and discuss how you can get involved.

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM

EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE: Optimizing the Cyber Discussion with the Board of Directors

Competitive advantage requires agility and innovation. At the same time, data, assets, and intellectual capital must be protected. This panel will focus on how to foster innovation and leverage security as a competitive advantage, providing strategies that can be quickly implemented to achieve the overall goal of secure innovation.

4:10 PM - 5:00 PM

Raffle Prizes and Executive Networking Reception

Presenting Partners

PwC’s accounting practice originated in London well over a century ago. As times changed and PwC expanded worldwide, our commitment to clients never wavered. With us, you’re always supported by a global network of more than 236,000 people in 158 countries with one goal: to help your business thrive. PwC’s professional services include audit and assurance, tax and consulting that cover such areas as cybersecurity and privacy, human resources, deals and forensics. We help resolve complex issues and identify opportunities across these industries. Let’s combine your aspirations with our world-class capabilities to achieve your goals.

Platinum Partners

Datalink, Cloud + Data Center Transformation division of Insight, is a complete IT services and solution provider that helps organizations transform technology, operations, and service delivery to meet challenges and future-proof the business. As an independent integrator, we’re free to recommend the most appropriate solutions — across cloud, IT transformation, next-generation technology, and security.

Gold Partners

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) is the global leader in privileged access security, a critical layer of IT security to protect data, infrastructure and assets across the enterprise, in the cloud and throughout the DevOps pipeline. CyberArk delivers the industry’s most complete solution to reduce risk created by privileged credentials and secrets. The company is trusted by the world’s leading organizations, including 50 percent of the Fortune 500, to protect against external attackers and malicious insiders.

Cybereason, creators of the leading cybersecurity data analytics platform, gives the advantage back to the defender through a completely new approach to cybersecurity. Cybereason offers endpoint detection and response (EDR), next-generation antivirus (NGAV), and active monitoring services, all powered by its proprietary data analytics platform. The Cybereason suite of products provides unmatched visibility, increases analyst efficiency and effectiveness, and reduces security risk.

Duo helps defend organizations against breaches through its easy and effective cloud-based Trusted Access product suite. The company verifies the identity of users, and the health of their devices, before granting them access to applications. Duo’s balance of security and usability has led them to be an enduring and trusted partner to thousands of customers world-wide, including Dresser-Rand, Etsy, Facebook, K-Swiss, Random House, Etsy, Yelp, Zillow, Paramount Pictures, and more. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company maintains offices in Austin, Texas; San Mateo, California; and London, and is backed by Benchmark, Geodesic Capital, Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Radar Partners, Redpoint Ventures, True Ventures, and Workday.

Supporting Partners

Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by eliminating the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. With enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds. Zerto is trusted by over 6,000 customers globally and is powering resiliency offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS, Sungard and more than 350 cloud services providers.

Strategic Partners

Egon Zehnder was founded in 1964 with a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals - to place our clients' interests first and to lead our profession in creating value for our clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources.
The most fundamental expression of our client-first vision resides in our structure, which is unique to our profession. Our 390 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between our offices. It allows us to operate seamlessly when engagements call for us to mobilize across many offices in a country or a region.
Large or small, local or global, our clients benefit from our structure by having access to our most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside.
Underpinning this unique structure is our private ownership. We have chosen to operate our firm independent of any outside interests and are motivated solely by a desire to exceed our clients' expectations.

Heidrick & Struggles actively solves business problems for our clients every day. Through our Leadership Advisory framework, we help companies attract, develop and retain the world’s most talented individuals. For almost 60 years, we have focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through our relationships with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

At Korn Ferry, we design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since our inception, clients have trusted us to help recruit world-class leadership. Today, we are a single source for leadership and talent consulting services to empower businesses and leaders to reach their goals. Through our vision, research and tools across 80 offices and 3,700 employees, we convert potential into greatness. Our solutions range from executive recruitment and leadership development programs, to enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). Organizations around the world trust Korn Ferry to manage their talent – a responsibility we meet every day with passion, expertise, integrity and results.

Russell Reynolds Associates is a premier provider of senior-level executive search and assessment, serving clients globally for 40 years. We advise our clients on recruiting and retaining outstanding and impactful leaders, and help them mitigate the risks associated with senior level appointments.
We are a private firm with 39 offices across North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific, covering all major business regions including Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East and the South Pacific.
We leverage our collective expertise to identify and assess leaders who can support the growth and success of our client organizations.
Our 300 experienced consultants are supported by a global research network
We complete more than 2,000 assignments annually, across a broad range of industries and functional roles.

Founded in 1956 and privately owned, Spencer Stuart is one of the world's leading executive search consulting firms.
We are the advisor of choice among top companies seeking guidance and counsel on senior leadership needs. We have unrivalled access to leading executives around the world.
Our clients range across industries, from the world's largest companies to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups.
We operate out of 51 offices in 27 countries. Last year we conducted more than 4,000 assignments around the world.
Our team of more than 300 consultants possesses a unique blend of professional search experience and industry expertise. Consultants are organized in practices and work in teams, often across international boundaries that maximize sector specialization and knowledge-sharing. These client service teams are supported by first-rate associates and researchers, and backed by state-of-the-art technology.
We place quality at the center of everything we do and solicit candid feedback at every opportunity in order to continually improve our service to clients.
We channel our knowledge and expertise into a wide range of publications for the benefit of existing and prospective clients.

Glynn Capital is focused on investments in leading private and public technology growth companies. We seek to be long-term investors in a limited number of excellent companies with world-class management teams, sustainable business models, and long-term growth potential.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. For over two decades, the Lightspeed partners have backed and helped build more than 250 companies globally, many of which have become market leaders. Lightspeed’s strategy is to be the first or lead institutional investor in companies with high growth potential in markets capable of supporting the creation of large, valuable enterprises. The Firm currently manages over $4 billion of committed capital and has invested in companies like AppDynamics, DataStax, Fusion-io, MuleSoft, Nest, Nicira.

Sequoia is a venture firm with a 40+ year track record of partnering with daring entrepreneurs. Founded in 1972, we’ve been early business partners with many of technology’s biggest companies (Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco, and more) along with many emerging leaders (WhatsApp, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, FireEye, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Airbnb, etc).

The CISO Executive Leadership Summit is created for Information Security Leaders who are focused on delivering proactive security strategies to the C-suite and board. It also has strong appeal to leaders interested in better positioning their organizations and themselves for what's ahead in enterprise security.

To ensure a high quality environment and to maximize the networking experience, all attendees must be:

Employed C-Level executives (non-vendor) or equivalent, CISOs, Direct Reports of CISOs, or Senior Most IT Professional in an organization with $200M or greater revenue, or from not-for-profit or government organizations with comparable size

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Full time academicians

If you meet the criteria above, there is no fee to attend.

All registration requests will be reviewed and approved based upon above stated criteria.

* Sales/marketing individuals or consultants from non-sponsoring vendor organizations are not permitted.

Special Needs - We fully support the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require special assistance of any kind, please call us at (203) 221-2702 or email us at registrar@hmgstrategy.com.